Hi there, I'm new to gentoo as well as this list, so if this is all too trivial to you, please don't bite my head off, but point me somewhere I can find the appropriate documentation; and yes, I google'd =8-)
So here's my problem: I installed gentoo 1.4 onto my box at home while having an nVidia GeForce 2 plugged in. Since that card didn't have a DVI port, a few weeks later I replaced it with a Radeon 9600 graphics adapter. I unmerged nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx, did an "emerge ati-drivers; opengl-update ati; modprobe fglrx" and, voila, X refused to start with 3D acceleration, complaining that it "couldn't open libGLcore.a" and, subsequently, failed to load GLX. I was able to remedy that by compiling xfree anew, which provided me with a working libGLcore.a, but now KDE refused to start, saying it couldn't open "libGLcore.so.1". I was able to trace it back to qt, which, recompiled with 'USE="-opengl" emerge qt' did get my KDE back, but obviously without 3D opengl support in qt, and, still, all other 3D applications like glxgears still complain about the missing "libGLcore.so.1". Having read a few posts on other mailing lists, my best guess is that libGLcore.so is something used only by nVidia's drivers. But why on earth is everyone so insistent on having that little library when I unmerged everything nVidia? What to do? :) Anyway, thanks in advance for all your help! Bye Enno -- "I'm crazy, but I get the job done." -- Ben Folds Five, "Philosophy" -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
